Lord of Lies Devlog #2

September 16th, 2023

Hey hey, it’s Joy! (Flowersforjoy) or Princess Joy if you follow me on Twitter in honor of Once Upon A Time VN Jam.

It’s been a good week! I’ve been steadily working on Lord of Lies but I won’t speak too much about my workflow in regards to this project just yet. Let’s talk about something (hopefully) more interesting…

The title drop is immensely satisfying.

Finally Talking About Lord of Lies!

Lord of Lies is a half LGBT romance visual novel, half dark fantasy/grim fairytale adventure RPG.

Features include:

• Exploring across the Planet Fae

• Fighting magical monsters and witches.

• With a Octopath Traveler-esque Battle System!

• Party building system with 8 companions! + a dog 🐕! 
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• Gain some approval from your party to earn items, armor, and even abilities to use in combat!

• Along with tent events to speak to your party whenever you want to! ^^^ (sprites present are from an earlier build of the game, not reflective of the final product)

• And most importantly an epic story of magic, adventure, and most importantly love.

Character Cast:

Lawrence Bane

Here’s an in game screenshot along with our main character: Lawrence Bane.

Lawrence is the protagonist of “Lord of Lies” as he was also the protagonist of “Princess Poison”. The only major change to Lawrence was his power: originally to track any human being, to being able to detect verbal lies.

These powers are especially important to the world, characters, and plot of Lord of Lies.

Every character with a ‘curse’ has an insignia branded into their body supernaturally.

The brands won’t just say ‘insignia’ they will instead be magical circles. Something like a contract… 

This is how witches or more specifically, cursed individuals are identified. Lawrence is able to hide his identity very well, but others aren’t so lucky…

Princess Gala

Next is our love interest Princess Gala (pronounced Gay-luh) because I mispronounced Gala (Gah-la) apples my whole life, so she’s Gala with a long a. 

The “Princess Poison” herself.

She introduces an important part of “Lord of Lies” present in early iterations of the story- allusions to Fairy tales. 

I think you can guess who Miss Gala is based off of, just with some trans girl goth sprinkled in ✨

Once upon a time, revealing Gala as a trans woman was a plot twist in the story but felt it was very unnecessary to do so for this iteration. 

Gala’s power however, will be kept secret… >:D

Charles

Next is Charles! A mysterious boy (18). He’s rife with spoilers so you get to just enjoy his looks for now!

King

The founder and highest ranked member of the Noble House Witch Hunters. He and his underlings all go by noble codenames. 

King is a living legend, an prolific author, a storm samurai, and a massive flirt.

He serves as the group’s big brother. 

And the rest! (I can’t speak about them much without spoilers…)

Next Week’s Devlog Sneak Peak

For next week’s Devlog; we will be talking about how I plan to tackle this monster of a game. (I swear I know what I am doing) And I can show you, next Saturday that is ;)

If you like the sound of that, please check back in every Saturday from now until December 30th for all devlogs during development.

Release date for this project is set December 31st!